Gear for modern dance music, by Joseph M. Getter

J O S E P H M. G E T T E R

multi-instrumentalist · ethnomusicologist · educator

Music for modern dance classes

above: gear used to accompany various modern dance classes at Wesleyan University, 2007-8. left-right: stick bag (with many types of rods, sticks, mallets, brushes, also holds claves and shakers), below is a plastic guiro block attached to a foot pedal, above is a beautiful tongue drum, bongos, conga, kick drum, cowbells. not seen: mbira, shekere (shaker, played with the feet), & piano

Gear for a modern dance project

above: gear used for project with vocalist Toby Twining, to provide musical accompaniment for performances by members of modern dance classes taught by Darla Stanley at the Green Street Arts Center, Middletown, May 2005

clockwise from top left: boss dr-220 drum machine (borrowed from musical collaborator & neighbor Mick Bolduc), fs5-u tap tempo pedal for delay, boss dd-20 delay (for pss-270 only), boss mx-60 6-channel mixer ($29 used from Guitar Center), digitech vocal 300 (in mixer effects loop), shure beta 57a (for mbira, not pictured), south indian flute in C#, casio sk-1 keyboard, misc asian bells and native american shakers (on floor), trash-picked cd player (loaded with softsynth and field recording drum loops, plus ambience), boss fv-50h stereo volume pedal (on floor, for outs of mixer, before going to amp + cabs), yamaha pss-270 keyboard, boss gt-3 and roland gr-1 (on floor but not in use here: guitar was just too much with all this)

missing from pic: aforementioned Dambatsoko-tuning mbira from Zimbabwe, prepared piano, and glass vase used as percussion ($7 from Marshall's)